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I agree that Man is a Spirit and that the body without the spirit is dead (James 2:26). But people understand it wrongly. The body could actually be alive without the spirit. There is a life force in the body. Leviticus 17:11- For the life of the flesh is in the blood... I used to understand it wrongly before. Also I think JohnD is right about God knowing children who would accept Jesus when they grow up. God knows the future.

12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

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I didn't say the body and the spirit doesn't equal the living soul. What I was saying is that comparison can not be made between an electric bulb and a human being. An electric bulb is purely physical while a human being is a spirit, has a soul and lives in a body.

I didn't say the body and the spirit doesn't equal the living soul. What I was saying is that comparison can not be made between an electric bulb and a human being. An electric bulb is purely physical while a human being is a spirit, has a soul and lives in a body.

I agree that Man is a Spirit and that the body without the spirit is dead (James 2:26). But people understand it wrongly. The body could actually be alive without the spirit. There is a life force in the body. Leviticus 17:11- For the life of the flesh is in the blood... I used to understand it wrongly before. Also I think JohnD is right about God knowing children who would accept Jesus when they grow up. God knows the future.

Lev. 17:11 is talking about animals, not humans. We could never be alive without a spirit. That is one thing that separates us from the animal kingdom.

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I agree that Man is a Spirit and that the body without the spirit is dead (James 2:26). But people understand it wrongly. The body could actually be alive without the spirit. There is a life force in the body. Leviticus 17:11- For the life of the flesh is in the blood... I used to understand it wrongly before. Also I think JohnD is right about God knowing children who would accept Jesus when they grow up. God knows the future.

I tend to see that as real possibility too based upon my own work in this area.

But it quickly becomes a point of division to discuss, ie. are all men alike?

I mean can some be with a different spirit inhabiting them?

I looked into the Hebrew ideas about it and they break it all down further and do not say the exact same thing as Evangelicals etc. say about the parts that make up a human. They make a little bit more sense.

Not so 'clear' cut about this topic (so it is murky waters to explore).

Looked around for article about and this one popped out.

Excerpt:

"Ezekiel wrote “The soul who sins shall die” (Ezk 18:20a) but we see a different word here in the Hebrew which is “nephesh” and is closely related to a physical being as it means “creature, living being (with life in the blood),” and “the man himself, person.” Thusly, we need to look at the original words and Ezekiel uses the soul as a living, breathing, life-in-the-blood, being."